UK security 'failed' to stop girls from going to Syria, family says

The family of British woman suspected of encouraging three London schoolgirls to join the Islamic State in Syria said that officials “failed” to stop them from leaving the country.

Shamima Begun, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, and another girl reportedly joined Aqsa Mahmood, 20, in the country riddled by ISIS oppression. Mahmood, who reportedly went to Syria to b e a “jihadi bride” in 2013, had online contact with one of the girls last week before they left the country.